The write-up on the back of the edition of An Obedient Father that I read describes Sharma’s protagonist as a bit of a Dostoevskyian anti-hero. This makes sense: Sharma gives us a corrupt, alcoholic, child-molesting bureaucrat as the vehicle through which most of the story is told. And–call me old fashioned–this makes the story just […]
White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism at washingtonpost.com — this not totally surprising but it is disappointing because we need Jones' message (re marrying our environmental and economic needs) (tagged: politics news environment ) OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard How to install Java 1.4 and/or 1.5 if needed. (tagged: java […]
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) is here, and that’s plenty exciting. All the refinements–in the UI and under the good–are getting their due play 1. One of those refinements: all of Java’s roads lead to 64-bit Java SE 6 2. If you’re not panicking (or at least a little alarmed) then don’t bother reading onward. […]
Enjoy. It’s getting quite a bit of action on Flickr right now.
all-time best cookbooks the “Brooklynhenge” article Deadwood motherhood “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku poems, […]
When I read Angela Carter, I imagine her as the literary grandmother to someone like Kelly Link 1. There’s an eccentric tone of fantasy, an unabashed outlandishness and roguish word-play; a challenge runs through the narrative as a thread, sometimes cleverly concealed at the seams and sometimes out in front like so much gaudy embroidery. […]
A self-professed miser and amateur budgeteer, I’ve been hearing rumors of Mint.com‘s awesomeness for quite some time now. A long-time Quicken user, I’ve been a bit reluctant to try it out – once I’ve gotten into the groove of a particular apparatus or routine, I’m loathe to break from it 1. But Quicken has left […]
Things plug-in syntax – Things Wiki (tagged: Quicksilver Things ) A Message on Ted Kennedy to Conservatives Who Hated Him (Mostly Profanity-Free for the Kiddies) at The Rude Pundit (via XJ's Twitter stream) (tagged: TedKennedy politics history ) tap tap tap ~ Convert design evolution Worth the watch. (tagged: video ui usability design ux ) […]
Setting up the Ultimate Mac mini Home Theater at TUAW (tagged: Mac Macmini hometheater howto hardware tutorial ) Storyist 2.0, a professional’s writing tool at TUAW (tagged: writing software todo ) punypng at Gracepoint After Five (via Ajaxian) — PNG Image Optimization and Compression (tagged: PNG graphics webdev work ) Where I Write via B² […]
Coming to Deadwood‘s anti-climactic finale last night, I decided to append a few follow-up notes and thought questions to my earlier assertion that the show was David Milch’s attempt at a purely American creation myth: Upon further reflection, Milch is attempting some important inversions on the creation myth paradigm. We’ve already discussed how his women […]